One More Croissant for the Road: Felicity Cloake

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I also really enjoyed the Pause Café sections, quick bites of useful France-related information conveniently slotted within the chapters and for those of us who enjoy cooking, Felicity includes her recipes for us to try too. While I do share Cloake’s love of French patisserie, particularly the croissant, I am much less enamoured of the rest of French cuisine. Cloake describes with gentle humour the minutiae of cycling long distance, the state of the various cheap rooms she stays in, the struggle to look presentable at restaurants after several hours of hard exercise. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site. At the start, though when I saw she names her bike “Eddy” (after Eddy Merckx, a pastry loving Tour de France great) and talks about getting kitted out to look the part even if she isn’t a serious cyclist, I knew this was the “cycling memoir” for me!

Every special occasion in the early 90s was celebrated with a trip to the same Soho brasserie in London for onion soup and steak frites, always culminating in the same pièce de résistance, a little pot of custard with an eminently smashable sugar top.Her journey takes us all across the country where she samples Tart Tatin, Omelette Soufflée, Crêpes Complètes, Provençal Fish Soup, Croque Monsieur, Soupe à l’Oignon Gratinée, Quiche Lorraine. Fascinating and great to dip in to, the author recounts the ups and downs of an amazing foodie trip, and an impressive cycling feat, without being too chipper or annoying. I adored reading all the small details of her trip and of course, I am desperately craving a croissant right now.

Quite entertaining, although it did get a bit repetitive (struggle up some hills, nearly arrive late for a restaurant reservation, eat food, describe another endless croissant, meet friends, drink too much, shove in a recipe to take up a bit of space). watching for teens when learning about civil rights- disabilty rights are just not taught about in school.Pure delight from first page to last, as if Elizabeth David was whispering one ear andMFK Fisher in the other. an Alsatian tarte flambée joint on Old Street in east London; Bob Bob Cité, which serves up steak tartare and snails in parsley butter a mile away in Leadenhall; and La Guingette, a little piece of Paris in Bristol.